Our Chief Executive, Lee Elliot Major, gave a presentation at the University of Sheffield on social mobility, which is covered by Erik Albrecht forGerman news site Deutsche Welle. “The…
Young votes matter
…politically engaged on record! I see my peers registering their discontent with various politicians, policies and ideologies literally every day on my Facebook newsfeed. The challenge therefore is for young…
Schools ‘cut staff due to funding shortages’
Katherine Sellgren for BBC News online covers our newly released teacher polling. Read the full article here. Read the polling here. …
Nine to one – not as easy as ABC
…hugely complex statistical measure of progress on which schools are now supposed mainly to be judged – yesterday’s news shows that the C grade remains important. Teachers have been struggling…
Admitting the problem
…how parents’ perceive the best schools. This is the context in which our new research report – Selective Comprehensives 2017 – renews our focus on secondary school admissions. Figure 1….
Summer school successes
…those groups, we’ve relaunched our Sun Scholars scheme for 2017. Las week the newspaper profiled one of the original Sun Scholars, Dr Leigh Fletcher. Leigh was inspired to apply to…